(NCQA: Washington) -- The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) recently released Quality Compass 2010: Commercial, the nation’s leading database of comparable information on clinical performance and patient experience for 404 commercial health plan products serving 94 million covered

(ASME: New York) -- The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has announced the 5th Frontiers in Biomedical Devices Conference and Exhibition, examining the technology that is driving innovation in the biomedical industry. The conference is set for Sept.

(MDdatacor inc.: Alpharetta, GA) -- MDdatacor inc., a provider of health care quality management solutions for insurers and health care providers, has announced that its MDinsight clinical quality system will help hospitals and physicians achieve many of the meaningful use requirements outlined

(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- Health care organizations from around the globe are invited to share their models of quality improvement at the upcoming 2011 Quality Institute for Healthcare (QIHC) Conference, May 16–18 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh.

(Healthcare Process Improvement Network: London) -- The notion of meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR) was clarified on July 13 by the U.S.

(FSCI: Orlando, FL) -- Florida hospitals and surgeons recently launched a new initiative to improve patient safety and the quality of surgical care while reducing costs throughout the state.

(University at Buffalo: Buffalo, NY) -- Health care managers interested in operational excellence are invited to the University at Buffalo’s (UB) health care improvement conference, “Sustaining Improvement: Using Lean Six Sigma as a Path to Excellence” on Sept.

(John Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, NJ) -- When you are ready to implement measures to improve patient safety, this is the book to consult.

(North Shore-LIJ: New Hyde Park, NY) -- The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York announces it has gone an entire year without a central-line infection in its Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) – the only children’

(Premier: Charlotte, NC) -- To help reduce costs without negative effects on quality, hospitals and health systems in California are joining a labor-related management collaborative managed by the Premier health care alliance.